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Bob Mader died unexpectedly in his home Feb. 22 at the age of 65.

Plumbing contractors in the affected areas have been unable to meet demand for service and products, and cold, icy conditions have further slowed response times and interrupted supply chains.

You may think you are too small to have a fleet manager, or so big you need a full-time fleet manager, and neither of those things is necessarily true.

Figure 1 shows the piping layout for an actual installation. It uses two boilers, fired in stages, to supply three areas of a building. 

Recently, while doing an emergency water heater replacement, I needed some lube for the small O-rings on the mixing valve. 

“Anything worth doing is worth doing right.”

That’s the slogan of Pataskala, Ohio-based Crawford Mechanical Services (CMS). 

Water is a precious and increasingly scarce resource. 

Each year, Plumbing & Mechanical editors receive thousands of product releases from industry manufacturers. 

Whether new or retrofit construction, parking structures and shipping and loading bays are often crucial to the viability and efficient use of residential, commercial, industrial and multi-use developments. 

The plumbing industry may have been around for centuries, but there’s still plenty of innovation and advancement today.